A while ago I was selected for The Emerging Voices Play In A Day Festival, which will be held starting at 6:00 pm on April 26 at the Joria Mainstage Theatre, 260 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10018. The festival will showcase a series of 10 to 15 minute long plays entirely written, rehearsed, and performed in the span of just one day. Read more

On Friday April 26 I will present the paper "Multiple Dialects on the Italian Stage: Commedia Techniques in Vergilio Verucci's Li diversi linguaggi" at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. Read more

Join me and six other directors for the exciting 24 Hour Play festival that will take place on January 19 at Joria Productions, 260 W 36th St, 3rd Floor, in Manhattan. Produced by Perchance to Dream Theatre the festival has a peculiar format that stimulates creativity by allowing a very short time from idea to production. Read more

I am currently casting a short play, Public Enemy by Phoebe Roberts, for the "Theatre Madness" showcase organized by Thespian Production that will take place at Joria Productions, 260 W 36th St. 3rd floor, in Manhattan on March 7 and 8 at 8:00 pm and March 9 at 3:00 and 8:00 pm. If you are interested in auditioning for a male in his early 40s and a woman in her mid-30s (non union) please send your resume, headshot, and contact info to stebos(at)live(dot)com.

In December 2012 I was selected for the post-graduate course "The New Face of Acting Teachers - Theatre Training Methods for Innovative Pedagogical Practice" which will take place in Mexico City at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). The course is led by Jurij Alschitz, a Russian director and one of the most renowned theatre pedagogues at this time, joined by a team of European and Mexican teachers in view of intercultural exchange. Stay tuned for my blog of the month-long session in February 2013! Read more

In my article "The Short Play and Postmodernist Stage Directing: A Virtual Experiment with
Pirandello’s Cecè" just published by Quaderni d'Italianistica I continue my research on the potential of brevity at the theatre. I propose to stage three or more interpretations of the same play within the same context as a strategy to destabilize single authorship and authoritarian critical positions.

I recently completed co-editing issue #3 of TSJ Translation: Translations Studies Journal, a peer reviewed journal, in collaboration with Philip Balma and Viola Miglio. In the section dedicated to the theatre, you can find my article "The Italian Linguistic Continuum for the Stage: The Challenges of Translating Carta canta by Raffaello Baldini." Read more